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Alchemausterity
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Oh dear... But maybe yours will pass without needing anything doing.......Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
Still thrifty though, after all these years:D0 -
Lol. And the pigs are requesting clearance for takeoff.
Had to turn my phone off to avoid compulsion to check work emails.
Too stressful.0 -
It really is all about the cars. My zapper packed up so just got home. On the bright side i have a spare and it wont cost five hundred quid.
People dropping like flies at work with indeterminate viruses.0 -
Surely the car problems will end soon, poor you. Re illness, I have a colleague who has been diagnosed with TB. Yikes.Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
Still thrifty though, after all these years:D0 -
TB omg. I always think of that as a disease of poverty. Wrongly it seems. Hope they are doing ok.
I am thinking of renaming this diary Alchemillas Auto Accidents.0 -
So an inspection of a kind today, and another tomorrow. No disasters that i am aware of. NSD.
Today i am grateful for
* surviving today
* the fire is lit
* puppy love on my feet
* baked potaoes in the aga
* MSE.0 -
Survived another inspection today and won some small battles. Naughtily spent money on second hand breaking bad dvds.
DH is going to need taken to hospital soon so they can sort out his ear. Just waiting on an appointment.0 -
You can always sell the DVDs afterwards so is not so naughty after all. I just sold a couple of sets after we watched them that I bought 2nd hand and felt quite MSE!Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!0 -
Good point. These are ones i really want to see but probably wont want to see more than once.0
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DS has an ear infection, our department has hit rock bottom and just been to take my c word for its mot and they had no Ioan car for me so I brought it back. Meh!0
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